Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: > Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> --- Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Because [remote] is NOT about mapping. It asks the fetch >>> mechanism to fetch from that remote, so the primary thing you >>> should look at is .url, not RHS of colon on .fetch lines. Use >>> of tracking branches is strictly optional. >> >> [remote "origin"] >> url = http://blah/bleah.git >> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* >> >> This basically says: "Get it" from such and such url, where >> on the repo at that url, i.e. the remote side, you will >> find stuff in "refs/heads/", and when you get it here, locally, >> put it in refs/remotes/origin/. > > [remote "origin"] > url = http://blah/blah.git > fetch = refs/heads/master > > is also fine. The point is that you do not have to use tracking > branches. ", and when you get it here, ..." part is optional. In other words, remote.*.fetch could be spelled as mapping to cause them locally stored in tracking branches, but the storing in tracking branches is merely a side effect of a fetch, not the primary one. The primary effect is to fetch the necessary objects and leave what was fetched in .git/FETCH_HEAD to communicate with later 'git pull'. The side effect is optional, so is spelling remote.*.fetch as a mapping. >> Yeah, but by default "refs/heads/branchA" doesn't exist (see >> my previous email). It doesn't have to, since it specifies >> the "remote part", but that has already been handled by >> "[remote]". > > Obviously fetch needs to handle the remote part because that is > the only name it exists at the remote. branch.*.merge is used > by pull, not fetch, and fetch communicates with pull by using > the remote name, because use of local tracking branches is > optional. In other words, the remote name is the only thing that can be used between fetch and pull to communicate. Fetch tells pull "I fetched these from the remote", and pull uses that information to make a merge, and the merge comment says "this merges the branch xyz from that repository", using the 'xyz' name used at the remote side, not your local tracking branch, which you may or may not be using. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html